Month: February 2009

In honor of our new design, I’m posting a hopefully-comprehensive if rather sad list of every band, artist and/or comedian I’ve ever seen live (not including theatrical appearances – that would be an entirely separate and altogether too-geeky list). Without further ado, the music/comedy list – an asterisk indicates multiple shows for each artist in a particular city:

Artist

City(ies)

Notes

The Aislers Set

San Francisco*

The Auteurs

London

Bill Bailey

London

Ballboy

Philadelphia, San Francisco*

Under-rated

The Beautiful South

San Francisco

Andrew Bird

Philadelphia

Board of Education

Philadelphia

Saul Broudy

Schwenksville

Philadelphia Folk Festival (PFF)

Mark Burgess

New York

Neko Case

Philadelphia

Cast

Chelmsford

V96

Melanie Chisholm

San Francisco

Yes, that one

Closet Queen

London

Obviously a cover band

Leonard Cohen

Philadelphia

Harry Connick, Jr.

St. Louis

Shemekia Copeland

Philadelphia

Crowded House

Philadelphia*, Washington, DC

Fantastic live

The Cure

St. Louis

Terrence Trent D’Arby

St. Louis

Opened for Duran Duran

David Devant and his Spirit Wife

London*, Manchester*, Oxford

With their Spectral Roadies, of course; I’ve probably seen them more than 50 times

The Dead Milkmen

St. Louis

The Divine Comedy

Berkeley, Bristol, Brooklyn, New York, San Francisco*

Can you tell which band is my favorite?

Duran Duran

St. Louis

They know why you are there

Elastica

Chelmsford

V96

Liam Finn

Philadelphia*

Both solo & w/E.J. Barnes

Johnny Flynn and the Sussex Wit

Philadelphia

Support from James Mathé and Caitlin Rose

Gandalf Murphy and the Slambovian Circus of Dreams

Schwenksville

PFF

God Street Wine

New Haven

Goldfrapp

San Francisco

Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci

Chelmsford

V96

John Wesley Harding

Camden, Philadelphia*, Sellersville

Solo and as part of the Cabinet of Wonders with Eugene Mirman, Jonatha Brooke, Chris Mills, Ken Kalfus, David Morse; at XPoNential Festival w/The English UK, Megan Reilly, Wreckless Eric & Amy Rigby

Herman’s Hermits

St. Louis

Hoots & Hellmouth

Schwenksville, Philadelphia*

PFF, also in Philadelphia w/Birdie Busch.

Whitney Houston

St. Louis

It was the 80s

Lee Hurst

London

At the Comedy Store with Alan Davies

Indigo Girls

Philadelphia

Eddie Izzard

London, San Francisco

James

Bloomington, Philadelphia

Amazing live

Joan as Police Woman

Philadelphia

Kansas

St. Louis

King Missile

St. Louis

The Ladybug Transistor

Brooklyn, San Francisco*, Washington, DC

They often seem to open for bands I like

Sondre Lerche

Philadelphia

Bobby Long

Philadelphia

Los Campesinos!

Austin

With The Smith Westerns, Girls

The Lucksmiths

Brooklyn, New York, San Francisco*, Washington, DC

Love, love love

Manic Street Preachers

San Francisco

John McCusker

San Francisco

Audra McDonald

New York

Don McLean

St. Louis

It was free

Donna McPhail

London

At a random comedy club

The Mike Flowers Pops

London

The Monkees

St. Louis

See ‘Whitney Houston‘

The Moody Blues

London, St. Louis*

Morrissey

Chicago

Love The Smiths, hated him live

My Life Story

London*, Manchester, Wolverhampton

Yes, even Wolverhampton

Gary Numan

Chelmsford

V96

Ardal O’Hanlon

London

He was the ‘surprise guest’

Okkervil River

Philadelphia

Ooh Baby Ooh

London

3-piece a capella group; opened for DD&HSW

Parker & Lily

New York

Mandy Patinkin

St. Louis

Met him afterward and he did his Inigo Montoya bit for us

Peter, Paul & Mary

St. Louis*

Pulp

Chelmsford

V96

Kate Rusby

San Francisco

Pete Seeger

Philadelphia

Linus’ first ‘real’ concert; Tao Rodríguez-Seeger and Guy Davis also shared the bill